Okay here is my review:
The album is finally here after almost 3 years of silence and my first reaction was OMG THIS **** IS FIERCE!
1. Look Alive Sunshine/Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na): The album's first single, and the first sure-fire sign that we're in drastically different territory to that traversed in The Black Parade. Big, dumb and full of fun. When I was listening to the song for the very first time I was like NO WAY, WTF IS THIS? but after many na na nas I totally loved the song. Good choice as a first single. 9.5/10
3. Bulletproof Heart: Wow, just wow. This song is LIFE! It reminds me to Green Day when I was like 13 and I was in middle-school. 'Bulletproof Heart' kickstarts the concept of MCR (or 'The Fabulous Killjoys') as intergalactic freedom-fighters into overdrive, starting with a glittering space-age score that evokes images of darkened futuristic cityscapes before giving way to another sleek and shiny riff. One of my favorite songs without a doubt. 9.8/10
4. SING: The album's second single, and the recipient of a remarkable mid-song metamorphosis. The first verse is built around thudding drums, some graceful ivory-tinkling and gently fizzing corkscrews of the guitar…. until someone spots the opportunity to wreak some havoc and jams their hand down on a Big Red Button marked 'Bombast'. What follows is the mother of all sing-along choruses and a bass line so cavernous you could hollow it around and take shelter in it, complete with the anthemic chorus of: "Sing it for the boys, sing it for the girls… Sing it for the world." 9/10
5.Planetary (GO!): ****! Upper case letters! An exclamation mark! A whirring red-alert siren that bulldozes its way through the track! The excrement is, quite evidently, about to make contact with the ventilation device. Rather than a signal of distress, though, 'Planetary (GO!)' is a booming beacon of hope buoyed by crunching guitars and boosted by proclamations of immortality such as "I can't slow down" and "I'm undefeatable". My favorite line is "Fame Is Now Injectable" If you want to shake your skeleton like crazy, then this song is for you. One of the best songs, DEAL WITH IT, HATERS! 9.9/10
6. The Only Hope For Me Is You: A bit of a breather, now, as synthesisers blur in and out of focus, punctuated with flashes of guitar. Not many love songs contain a rather excellent 'Whoosh' sound affect that sounds like the Death Star passing directly over your head, but still, a love song this certainly is - a heart-on-sleeve missive in which Way earnestly tells the object of his desire : "The only hope for me is you". 9.2/10
8. Party Poison: OMG this is the most straightforward track on the album: a relatively traditional blast of pop-punk which is satisfying enough. All of the stans of MCR were waiting for a song like this and trust me, we are not disappointed. The song is ****ing explosive and the lyrics are ****ing addictive: "This ain't a party / Get off the dancefloor / You wanna get down / I wanna gang war." I see this song becoming a single in the near future, it deserves it. 9.8/10
9. Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back: As I said before, this is Famous Last Words pt.2. Indeed, it seems as if MCR are directly writing against that image, with lines such as "This ain't a room full of suicides" and "We can live forever, if you have the time". i ****ing adore everything about the lyrics of this song. ****ING AWESOME! 9.9/10
10. S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W: HOLY ****! This song is like a precious diamond, I cannot believe half of the fanbase hate it. Turning the sci-fi motif into something more ethereal and romantic (with imagery such as "Blow a kiss at the methane skies"), this is pop music plain and simple. I think this song could make a great crossover if its released as a single. I cant stop playing this song, its magical! 10/10
11. Summertime It has that 80's vibe that I love! This song is BEAUTIFUL in many ways. The chorus is so memorable "And if you stay I will either wait all night /Or until my heart explodes out / Until we find our way in the dark and out of heart /You can run away with me any time you want". it made me cry, for real! 9.7/10
12.DESTROYA: PURE POWER! If you were worried that things were going to take a turn for the slushy and sentimental, then fear ye not. Giant crashes, pounding drums and sneering vocals blow the romanticism away, here, in some sort of tribal ritualistic-cleansing as Way turns his back on love and fledges himself fully towards his forthcoming battle: "I don't believe in God, I don't believe in love/ I don't believe in you, I just believe in the enemy". A paranoid thrash of a tune. BTW I love Gerard moaning like that, it turned me on! 9.7/10
13. The Kids From Yesterday: This song probably has the most beautiful lyrics of all Danger Days: Well, my best could be the last of all the rides we take / So hold on tight and don't look back. / They don't care about the message or the rules they make. / We'll find you when the sun goes black. / Cause you only live forever in the light you make / When we were young we used to say / That you only hear the music when your heart begins to break / Now we are the kids from yesterday. 9.2/10
14. Goodnite Dr.Death: This ends, quite splendidly, with the strains of 'The Star Spangled Banner'. AWESOME!
15. Vampire Money: MY FAVORITE SONG SO FAR, it screams PUNK PUNK PUNK!:
"Well 3-2-1 we came to ****
everybody party till the gasman comes, sparkle like bowie in the morning sun and get a parking violation on la *** till it's done ". When I heard the song for the first time I got paralyzed and a discharge of 10000 volts were running through all my veins. This is less experimental than a lot of the previous material, but still a fitting way to end - another brilliantly daft riff that ends in an all-consuming crescendo. A victorious signing off to what's a remarkable reinvention, then, which leaves us in taking shelter in the ruins of a brutally triumphant revolution. 10/10
The album is so perfect and I need a copy already in my hands.
Album Rate: 9.5/10
Top 5:
05. Bulletproof Heart
04. Party Poison
03. Save Yourself / Planetary (GO!)
02. S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W
01. Vampire Money
